Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Fred Furney is a human red light, bound and determined to stop the speeding and tailgating that he says are turning Bellona Avenue near York Road into a danger zone.
"I have a 20-month-old daughter. I worry, very much so," said Furney, who moved to th...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Sixty-five years after her final Gym Drill, Anne "Nancy" Taliaferro Smith boasted, "I can still do the Highland Fling."
Smith, a 1939 graduate of The Bryn Mawr School, joined more than 2,000 alumnae on the upper field May 1 to celebrate the Centennial...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
In a show of hands _ and force _ Wyman Park residents at a public meeting April 29 rejected Baltimore City's proposed site for a sanitary sewage pumping station in the park.
A committee of residents and public works officials is being formed to settle...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Sports
The Loyola College defense will have plenty to worry about this week, knowing that Johns Hopkins' potent offense will be paying a visit to Diane Geppi-Aikens Field May 8 at 1 p.m.
And the 11-1 Blue Jays' hottest shooter, Conor Ford, will have to be co...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Sports
Friends Coach Rich Seiler thoroughly enjoys competing against some of the best public-school teams in the area.
Rivals from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference include St. Paul's, Calvert Hall, Gilman, Boys' Latin and Loyola...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Opinion
A dozen camellias came to my door last week. In an old-fashioned basket with a handle they sat on the brick door sill, reminding me of ones sent to my sister and me as children by the lady across the street.
The artistry of this arrangement was a text...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Opinion
Last month's slash-and-burn firing of key employees at the Maryland Public Service Commission is as messy as President Richard Nixon's "Saturday night massacre" at the Justice Department in 1973.
Of course, there was no mystery about that episode. Nix...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Education
With 900 students wearing hard hats and Head of School Lila Kohr operating a front-end loader, Friends School broke ground April 30 for a replacement middle school and an expanded and renovated upper school science and math center.
Both projects are e...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Slip-ware pitchers, Scandinavian boiled-wool boots, a 3-foot-long skateboard and Civil War-era Baltimore photos _ these were some of the varied treasures found in abundance at our community yard sale May 1 on the Greenspace. Becky Bridger flier-ed and org...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
More than 1,000 volunteers turned out May 2 to lend a hand for the fifth annual Community Mitzvah Day.
Sponsored by Jewish Family Services, the event drew children, seniors and all ages in between to do mitzvahs, or good deeds, by performing community...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
On a lazy Sunday morning in Hampden, Patricia Hetsinger, 27, is doing not much of anything.
She sits quietly on the living room sofa as her 11-month-old son, Thomas Hetsinger III, sleeps in her arms.
Thomas Hetsinger II, a Baltimore police off...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
L'il Lily Bertozzi arrived March 25, right before a supersized stork popped up on her lawn. After a year of renovating their house from top to bottom, her mom, Jessica, and dad, Scott, will apply the finishing touches with a deck and patio before the hous...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
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Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
Vaughan Schmidt has raised shopping in Roland Park to a new art form. She introduced the Carlisle Collection of women's high-fashion clothes to the neighborhood with a show in her home in April.
Vaughan emptied her lovely living room and dining room o...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in Community
In legal terms, a hot tub is "an attractive nuisance." No less attractive, but a far greater nuisance is our own Dr. Chris Kraft of Wingate Road, who purchased a hot tub on eBay and to his neighbors' delight left it on his front lawn for several days whil...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Cedarcroft has new signs.
There are four oval-shaped signs, one for each entrance to the neighborhood of 135 homes, bounded by Lake Avenue on the south, Gittings Avenue on the north, Bellona Avenue on the west and York Road on the east.
The si...
Published May 5, 2004 by Baltimore Messenger in News
Hollins Organic Products is making extensive efforts to control run-off from its mulch-making operation on Falls Road near Robert E. Lee Park, according to Baltimore County officials.
The run-off, which is created as tree trunks, limbs and stumps are ...
Loch Raven senior Artie Spruill mulled over several offers from colleges interested in having her participate in intercollegiate athletics in various sports. In the end, she chose lacrosse.
Spruill's decision to be part of the only Division I all-Afri...
First-year Dulaney Coach Lori Ryan knows that having a southpaw shortstop is, well, different.
Ryan also understands that when the shortstop in question is the bazooka-armed Dani Woods, convention must take a back seat to common sense.
Even if...
The Loyola College defense will have plenty to worry about this week, knowing that Johns Hopkins' potent offense will be paying a visit to Diane Geppi-Aikens Field May 8 at 1 p.m.
And the 11-1 Blue Jays' hottest shooter, Conor Ford, will have to be co...
The brass quintet will play "Pomp and Circumstance" during graduation ceremonies for Towson University students this month.
But other than that, the university is making a pretty significant break with tradition.
New TU President Robert Caret ...
If the city fathers had their way back in the days when Baltimore City and Baltimore County were one, things might have been different for Judith Kremen.
The monument erected in 1829 to honor George Washington (the one that draws remarks like, "Now we...
The chairman of the County Council is irritated at the Planning Board because of a decision the board made last month - and he's floating the idea of cutting the board's size as a result.
Chairman Sam Moxley has drafted a bill to reduce the 15-member ...
Use of school for political workshop was wrong
The Baltimore County Democrats' use of a public high school for a partisan workshop is troubling to me ("Political seminar at Loch Raven High draws scrutiny," April 21).
The Democrats are bending ...
If last weekend was any indication, the folks in charge of the Towsontown Spring Festival seem to have things down pat after 37 years.
The festival, held Saturday and Sunday, brought out not only a couple hundred thousand people, but also the best in ...